The Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural science is a department of Aberystwyth University, and is located in the town of Aberystwyth on the west coast of Wales, on Cardigan Bay. It has a remit for teaching, research as well as business innovation in the area of land use and the rural economy. Taught undergraduate degree schemes offered by the Institute include those in Agriculture, Animal Science, Countryside Management and Species Conservation, Equine Science, as well as Tourism Management. The Institute has approximately 500 undergraduate students, approximately 40 postgraduate students, 28 full-time lecturers and a similar number of part-time associate-lecturers . The Institute has three research groups: Environmental Ecology, Animal Science and Rural Development. In addition, the Institute is also the home to the Organic Centre Wales, as well as the Farm Business Survey unit of the Welsh Assembly Government.IBERS has a complex history of mergers. The Institute of Rural science was created in 1995 from the merger of the Welsh Agricultural College with the University's Department of Agriculture. The current Institute has taken over the Welsh Agricultural College site and buildings, now called the Llanbadarn Campus of the University, Wikipedia.

Quinn P.F.,Newcastle University | Hewett C.J.M.,Institute of Grassland And Environmental Research | Muste M.,University of Iowa | Popescu I.,UNESCOIHEProceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Water Management | Year: 2010

This paper discusses the instigation of a programme intended to create a water-focused upper Mississippi river basin observatory. The observatory would consist of a number of interdisciplinary, multi-institutional teams synergistically collaborating on a series of research sites at different locations within the basin. There is no existing recipe for establishing an observatory, but there is a vast amount of experience and knowledge that can be shared to help establish one. The concept of an observatory process is introduced to encapsulate the long-term, interactive and dynamic nature of what is proposed. Building an observatory should be a collaborative, inclusive and equitable process and could be used to establish a practical problem-solving agenda linking the abundance of research carried out in the upper Mississippi river basin to the needs of mission agencies and stakeholders within the basin. In order to begin the process, a workshop brought together an international team of research scientists and practitioners to discuss how the process could become a reality. Surveys were used to assess the understanding, perceived challenges and aspirations of the participants before and after the workshop, the results of which are presented as a key element of the action research. A draft Amana protocol, based on the outcomes of the workshop discussions, is presented as a possible means of moving the observatory process forward.
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Chilibroste P.,Grass Production and Utilisation on Grazing Systems Group | Gibb M.J.,Institute of Grassland And Environmental Research | Soca P.,Grass Production and Utilisation on Grazing Systems Group | Mattiauda D.A.,Grass Production and Utilisation on Grazing Systems GroupAnimal Production Science | Year: 2015

Del Prado A.,Rothamsted Research | Misselbrook T.,Rothamsted Research | Chadwick D.,Rothamsted Research | Hopkins A.,Rothamsted Research | And 5 more authors.Science of the Total Environment | Year: 2011